Sciences and Technology

Marvin Minsky / The Society of Mind (Coffee Table Book)

Marvin Minsky -- one of the fathers of computer science and cofounder of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT -- gives a revolutionary answer to the age-old "How does the mind work?"Minsky brilliantly portrays the mind as a "society" of tiny...

John Fauvel / Let Newton Be! - A New Perspective on his Life and Works(Coffee Table Book)

Over the three hundred years since the publication of his Principia Mathematica , Newton has come to symbolize the ideal of scientist and mathematician par excellence . Let Newton Be! (the title comes from a famous couplet by Alexander Pope) explores the...

Richard Platt / The Smithsonian Visual Timeline of Inventions (Coffee Table Book)

Traces the history of inventions throughout time, from 3500 BC to the technological advances of today, in an indispensible guide that provides students with a vast array of essential information and makes learning enjoyable.     All of our...

Paul Parsons / Science in 100 Key Breakthroughs (Coffee Table Book)

Science in 100 Key Breakthroughs presents a series of clear and concise essays that explain the fundamentals of some of the most exciting and important science concepts you really need to know. Paul Parsons profiles the important, ground-breaking, and...

Roy Porter / Hutchinson DICTIONARY OF SCIENTIFIC BIOGRAPHY (Coffee Table Book)

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Brendan McWilliams / Illustrated Weather Eye (Coffee Table Book)

Brendan McWilliams' column, Weather Eye, that was published daily for almost 2 decades in The Irish Times, was one of the most successful and best-loved features in modern Irish journalism. The book comprises Anne McWilliams' favorite pieces from her...

Jess K. Gilmour / The Practical Astronomer's Deep-sky Companion (Coffee Table Book)

A Practical Astronomer's Deep-sky Companion is an essential read for deep-sky observers, whether they are interested in imaging or just sightseeing. This beautiful large-format full-colour book is designed to be taken out into the field during observing...

Roger D. Launius / NASA and the Exploration of Space: With Works from the Nasa Art Collection (Coffee Table Book)

Chronicles the history of NASA and the U.S. space program in a definitive study featuring sidebar narratives from some of the most famous American astronaunts, analyses of the origins and growth of the program, and full-color illustrations from...

A.W.F. Edwards / Cogwheels of the Mind: The Story of Venn Diagrams (Coffee Table Book)

Used today in spheres of life as diverse as business strategy, creative writing, medicine, computer science, and theoretical physics, Venn diagrams possess fascinating properties. The basic Venn diagram is both elegantly simple―three overlapping circles...

Joanne Baker / 50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know (Coffee Table Book)

In this book, Joanne Baker unravels the complexities of 20th-century scientific theory for a general readership. She explains ideas at the cutting-edge of scientific enquiry, making them comprehensible and accessible to the layperson.     All...

Joanne Baker / Universe: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know (Coffee Table Book)

In this, the latest volume in the best selling 50 Ideas series, author Joanne Baker unravels the complexities of the universe for a general readership. From Heliocentrism to dark matter, and from Kepler’s laws of planetary motion and orbits to...

Chris Eliasmith / How to Build a Brain: A Neural Architecture for Biological Cognition (Coffee Table Book)

One goal of researchers in neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence is to build theoretical models that are able to explain the flexibility and adaptiveness of biological systems. How to build a brain provides a detailed guided exploration...

Bernard Golden / Amazon Web Services For Dummies (Coffee Table Book)

Create dynamic cloud-based websites with Amazon Web Services and this friendly guide! As the largest cloud computing platform in the world, Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides one of the most popular web services options available. This easy-to-understand...

David McCandless / Knowledge is Beautiful (Coffee Table Book)

In this mind-blowing follow-up to the bestselling Information is Beautiful, the king of infographics David McCandless uses spectacular visuals to reveal unexpected insights into how the world really works. We are living in the Information Age, in which...

Fabrizio Mazzucconi / Atlas of the Skies (Coffee Table Book)

Nowadays we have stopped watching the sky. We are so submerged by our towns’ lights, constantly busy, hypnotized by the television, that we hardly have time to contemplate the sky at night. We forget the stars’ beauty, the planet’s slow...

Brian May , Patrick Moore , Chris Lintott / Bang! The Complete History of the Universe (Coffee Table Book)

Who knows what Brian May was thinking when he wrote "We Will Rock You" for Queen? As a lifelong astrophysics aficionado, he may have been thinking about the origins of the universe. He's certainly been thinking about it lately. May, a freshly minted...

Cassell's Atlas of Evolution : The Earth, Its Landscape and Life Forms (Coffee Table Book)

This major new atlas offers the first complete look at the evolution of the Earth, from the beginning of the solar system to the present-day. Its six sections are divided into 18 chapters setting out the geological and biological developments of each...

Frank Swain / How to Make a Zombie : The Real Life (and Death) Science of Reanimation and Mind Control

The search for the means to control the bodies and minds of our fellow humans has been underway for millennia, from the sleep-inducing honeycombs that felled Pompey’s army to the Voodoo potions of Haiti. Now, Frank Swain, the force behind Science...

Richard Dawkins / The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True (Coffee Table Book)

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Carl Zimmer / EVOLUTION :The Triumph of an Idea (Coffee Table Book)

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Esther Dyson / Release 2.0 - A Design for Living in the Digital Age(Hardback)

Published 1997 - at the very early days of the internet becoming a mass use technology.  So this reads more like ' what the author got right, from the perspective of nearly 3-0 years on'  Written with an insider's knowledge and a ready wit, and...

Storm Dunlop / Night Sky

The first true beginner's guide to astronomy, Night Sky provides an introduction to the subject that is both colorful and accessible. Containing all the information you need to be able to recognize each constellation, this is the ideal companion to...

D.T. Max / The Family That Couldn't Sleep : Unravelling a Venetian Medical Mystery

For two hundred years a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains, and ending their lives in a matter of months. In Papua New Guinea, a...

Georgina Ferry / Dorothy Hodgkin : A Life

Dorothy Hodgkin was an eminent crystallographer whose research contributed to an extraordinary period of scientific discovery. She was also passionate about international affairs and an active peace campaigner. This biography reveals the inner life...

Oliver Sacks / Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood

Oliver Sacks's luminous memoir charts the growth of a mind. Born in 1933 into a family of formidably intelligent London Jews, he discovered the wonders of the physical sciences early from his parents and their flock of brilliant siblings, most notably...

Peter MacBride / Teach Yourself Windows Vista

Don't get vexed by Vista! Written especially for the newuser at home or in the office, Teach Yourself Windows Vista helps you maximize thisnext generation of Windowswith confidence. The user-friendlyguide explains everythingfrom getting online...

Robert M. Youngson / Collins Dictionary of Human Biology

Human Biology is a key subject of study in all the subjects related to medicine from radiology to pharmacology. This is the first student dictionary devoted to the subject. In over 6,000 entries, this dictionary covers the topics necessary in...

Stephen Jay Gould / Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time

Rarely has a scholar attained such popular acclaim merely by doing what he does best and enjoys most. But such is Stephen Jay Gould's command of paleontology and evolutionary theory, and his gift for brilliant explication, that he has brought dust...

L.T.C. Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson

The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,...

Dylan Jones / iPod, Therefore I Am - A Personal Journey Through Music

Dylan Jones takes the reader on an incredible journey through his lifelong musical infatuation - a thirty-year binge of glam rock, punk, disco, and rap that coalesced with the iPod's miraculous ability to put all of a person's meticulously hoarded...

Rolt / Thomas Telford

The son of a shepherd from the Scottish borders, Thomas Telford rose to be the greatest engineer in Victorian Britain, whose bridges, aqueducts, roads and canals combined aesthetic grace with brilliant engineering. His life spanned one of the most...

Francis Spufford / Backroom Boys : The Secret Return of the British Boffin

Britain is the only country in the world to have cancelled its space programme just as it put its first rocket into orbit. Starting with this forgotten episode, The Backroom Boys tells the bittersweet story of modern British engineers and inventors...

Andreas Wagner / The Arrival of the Fittest - How Life Invents Itself (Hardback)

We all know about natural selection and the so-called survival of the fittest, which governs how evolution preserves useful adaptations in each subsequent generation of a species. Unfortunately, random change alone could not have produced life as we know...

Masha Gessen / Perfect Rigour: A Genius And The Mathematical Breakthrough Of The Century (Hardback)

In 2006, an eccentric Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman solved one of the world's greatest intellectual puzzles. The Poincare conjecture is an extremely complex topological problem that had eluded the best minds for over a century. In...

Charles J. Murray / The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer (Hardback)

The SUPERMEN"After a rare speech at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, in 1976, programmers in the audience had suddenly fallen silent when Cray offered to answer questions. He stood there for several minutes, waiting for...

David Gale / Tracking the Automatic ANT: And Other Mathematical Explorations (Hardback)

For those fascinated by the abstract universe of mathematics, David Gale's columns in The Mathematical Intelligencer have been a prime source of entertainment. Here Gale's columns are collected for the first time in book form...

New Scientist (3 Book Box Set)

New Scientist (3 Book Box Set), comprising the following Q&A based books - Does anything eat Wasps? Why don't Penguins' eet freeze? How to fossilise your Hamster     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy...

Gabrielle Walker / Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It (Hardback)

Did the Earth once undergo a super ice age, one that froze the entire planet? A global adventure story and a fascinating account of scientist Paul Hoffman's quest to prove his maverick 'Snowball Earth' theory, this is science writing at its most...

Scientific American Library (7 Book Collection)

Scientific American Library (7 Book Collection) drugs and the brain island the solar system dicsovering enzymes sand chemical communication eye, brain, and vision     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy...

Scientific American (4 Magazine Collection)

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James Gleick / Chaos (Hardback)

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Eric Hansen / Orchid fever: a horticultural tale of love, lust and lunacy (Hardback)

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Oliver Morton / Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet (Hardback)

A story of a world in crisis and the importance of plants, the history of the earth, and the feuds and fantasies of warring scientists — this is not your fourth-grade science class's take on photosynthesis.From acclaimed science journalist...

Marcus du Sautoy / The Number Mysteries (Hardback)

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Reuben Hersh / What Is Mathematics Really (Hardback)

What is Mathematics, Really? Most philosophers of mathematics treat it as isolated, timeless, ahistorical, inhuman. Reuben Hersh argues the contrary, that mathematics must be understood as a human activity, a social phenomenon, part of human...

Mark Bowden / Worm : The First Digital World War (Hardback)

From the author of "Black Hawk Down" comes the story of the battle between those determined to exploit the internet and those committed to protect it--the ongoing war taking place literally beneath our fingertips.The Conficker worm infected its first...

John Brockman / What Are You Optimistic About? (Hardback)J

The nightly news and conventional wisdom tell us that things are bad and getting worse. Yet despite dire predictions, scientists see many good things on the horizon.   John Brockman, publisher of Edge (www.edge.org),  asked more than 150...

Mario Beauregard / Brain Wars: The Scientific Battle Over the Existence of the Mind and the Proof That Will Change the Way We Live Our Lives (Hardback)

In Brain Wars , acclaimed neuroscientist Mario Beauregard reveals compelling new evidence set to provoke a major shift in our understanding of the mind-body research showing that the mind and consciousness are transmitted and filtered through the...

Charles Seife / Alpha and Omega : The Search for the Beginning and the End of the Universe (Hardback)

The astronomical community has been on tenterhooks awaiting the outcome of a set of experiments that should throw light on ultimate questions of the universe. This book unveils the results of these experiments.         All of...

Lisa Jardine / INGENIOUS PURSUITS. Building the Scientific Revolution. (Hardback)

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Steve Lohr / Data-ism: The Revolution Transforming Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, and Almost Everything Else (Hardback)

Steve Lohr, a technology reporter for the New York Times , chronicles the rise of Big Data, addressing cutting-edge business strategies and examining the dark side of a data-driven world. Coal, iron ore, and oil were the key productive assets that...

Andrew Burgess / The Executive Guide to Artificial Intelligence: How to identify and implement applications for AI in your organization (Hardback)

This book takes a pragmatic and hype–free approach to explaining artificial intelligence and how it can be utilised by businesses today. At the core of the book is a framework, developed by the author, which describes in non–technical...